I've never been to Utah myself, but according to the Salt Lake Magazine the Beehive is a ubiquitous symbol in the state.
This has very little to do with bees per se (Utah ranks only 24th among the fifty US states in terms of honey production) and everything to do with Biblical representations of the Promised Land as 'the Land of Milk and Honey' and the beehive as a symbol of community, co–operation and industry.
(Ironically, the honey referred to in the Bible had nothing to do with bees, as there were none in the ancient Middle East. It was probably made from dates.)
According to The Book of Mormon, (says Salt Lake Magazine), a tribe known as the Jaredites made a miraculous 344–day voyage across the ocean to North America. They brought with them the 'deseret', which is the name given to the honey bee in The Book of Mormon. When Brigham Young and the Latter–day Saints arrived in Salt Lake Valley in July 1847, Young named their new home Deseret, and chose the beehive as its emblem. (Like many of the USA's founding fathers, Brigham Young was a practising Freemason; the bee and its hive were popular symbols in Freemasonry.)
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